An ideal companion to the 11th and 12th installments of The Making of Modern Law, this 13th collection in the venerable series explores of 500 cases seen by the U.S. Courts of Appeals that were chosen specifically due to their engagement with key issues that occupy today’s American consciousness, such as reproductive rights, immigration policy, the civil rights of women and people of color, and much more.
Environmental History: Conservation and Public Policy in America, 1870–1980
With the effects of climate change already upon us, the need has never been greater to understand the long history behind today’s uniquely American conflagrations around resource usage, trade rules, land rights, and environmental conservation. Access the correspondence, manuscripts, pamphlets, and much more that chronicle the effort to balance the good of the planet with the economic drivers of the Industrial Revolution through the late twentieth century—and witness the beginnings of the modern American conservation movement.